# List of ship launches in 1801

The list of ship launches in 1801 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1801.
| Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 15 January | India | J. Gilmore | Calcutta | Lucy Maria | Merchantman | For Walter Dawes. |
| 15 January | United Kingdom | Moore | Plymouth | Charlotte | Brig | For Mr. Pedder. |
| 28 February | United Kingdom | Frances Barnard | Deptford | Aeolus | Amphion-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 29 March | France | | Lorient | Scipion | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 1 April | United Kingdom | John & William Wells | Blackwall | Aggressor | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 1 April | United Kingdom | John Perry | Blackwall | Escort | Gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 1 April | United Kingdom | Perry, Wells & Green | Blackwall | Jackal | Bloodhound-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 April | United Kingdom | John & William Wells | Blackwall | Archer | Gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 April | United Kingdom | John Randall & Co. | Rotherhithe | Basilisk | Bloodhound-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 April | United Kingdom | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Bloodhound | Bloodhound-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 April | United Kingdom | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Censor | Bloodhound-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 April | United Kingdom | Frances Barnard | Deptford | Locust | Gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 4 April | United Kingdom | John Perry | Blackwall | Ferreter | Bloodhound-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 4 April | United Kingdom | Thomas Pitcher | Northfleet | Mariner | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 4 April | United Kingdom | Balthazar Adams | Buckler's Hard | Starling | Bloodhound-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 4 April | United Kingdom | Balthazar & Edward Adams | Bursledon | Starling | Bloodhound-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 11 April | United Kingdom | Frances Barnard | Deptford | Mallard | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 April | United Kingdom | Thomas Pitcher | Northfleet | Medusa | Amphion-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 April | United Kingdom | Thomas Pitcher | Northfleet | Minx | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 16 April | United Kingdom | Wells & Co. | Blackwall Yard | Bold | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 April | United Kingdom | John Dudman | Deptford | Charger | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 April | United Kingdom | Dudman & Co. | Deptford | Conflict | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 28 April | United Kingdom | John Dudman | Deptford Dockyard | Constant | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 29 April | United Kingdom | George Parsons | Bursledon | Resistance | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 May | United Kingdom | William Naylor Wright | Liverpool | Elizabeth | Merchantman | For Robert Charnock. |
| 2 May | United Kingdom | Balthazar and Edward Adams | Bursledon | Snipe | Bloodhound-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 May | France | | Rochefort | Héros | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 11 May | United Kingdom | John Nicholson | Rochester | Monkey | Bloodhound-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 May | United Kingdom | Edward Tippett | Deptford | Narcissus | Narcissus-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| May | France | Jean-François Thibault | Bordeaux | L'Invention | Privateer | For Jean-François Thibault. |
| 9 June | United Kingdom | Balthazar Adams | Buckler's Hard | Vixen | Bloodhound-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 13 June | United Kingdom | | Portsmouth Dockyard | Dreadnought | Neptune-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| 15 June | United Kingdom | Randall | Rotherhithe | Ann | Full-rigged ship | For Matthew White. |
| 18 June | United Kingdom | Temple shipbuilders | South Shields | Atlas | Merchantman | For Simon Temple. |
| 27 June | United Kingdom | J. Dudman | Deptford | General Stuart | East Indiaman | For East India Company. |
| 27 June | India | Matthew Smith | Calcutta | Gilwell | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 27 June | United Kingdom | Bridley | Frindsbury | Tartar | Narcissus-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 July | India | Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia | Bombay Dockyard | David Scott | Merchantman | For Thomas Garland Murray. |
| 11 July | United Kingdom | Peter Everitt Mestaer | Rotherhithe | Northampton | Merchantman | For captain Barker. |
| July | United Kingdom | | | Jean | Brig | For private owner. |
| 20 August | Venetian Province | | Venice | Carrère | Frigate | For French Navy. |
| 24 August | India | | Fort William | Medway | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 29 August | Russia | F. Ignatyev | Archangelsk | Speshnyi | Fifth rate | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 31 August | Denmark-Norway | Fugelsang | Copenhagen | Lillebælt | Corvette | For Dano-Norwegian Navy. |
| 9 September | United Kingdom | Obadiah Ayles | Topsham | Retreat | Merchantman | For Mr. Wigram. |
| 23 September | United Kingdom | Balthazar & Edward Adams | Bucklers Hard | Aigle | Aigle-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 7 October | France | | Nantes | L'Alcion | Alcion-class brig | For French Navy. |
| 7 October | France | | Nantes | Le Goéland | Alcion-class brig | For French Navy. |
| 22 October | United Kingdom | Edward Sison | Woolwich Dockyard | Plantagenet | Third rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 October | United Kingdom | Parr | Plymouth | Name unknown | West Indiaman | For private owner. |
| 6 November | India | Hamilton & Aberdeen | Tittaghur | Countess of Sutherland | Merchantman | For Hamilton & Aberdeen. |
| 7 November | United Kingdom | Pitcher | Northfleet | David Scott | East Indiaman | For John Locke. |
| 7 November | France | | Brest | Diligente | Diligente-class corvette | For French Navy. |
| 10 November | Russia | V. I. Popatov | Kherson | Krepkii | Fourth rate | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 13 November | United Kingdom | Perry | Blackwall | Alnwick Castle | East Indiaman | For East India Company. |
| 20 November | United Kingdom | Moore | Plymouth | Farne | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| 23 November | United Kingdom | Joseph Graham | Harwich | Conqueror | Third rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 5 December | United Kingdom | Pitcher | Northfleet | Perseverance | East Indiaman | For East India Company. |
| 15 December | Lower Canada | William Baldwin | Quebec City | Atlas | Merchantman | For W. Beatson & Co. |
| 21 December | Ottoman Empire | | Constantinople | Name unknown | 90-gun Man-of-war | For Ottoman Navy. |
| 22 December | India | Edward Bacon | Calcutta | Betsey | Full-rigged ship | For Edward Bacon. |
| 23 December | United Kingdom | Perry, Wells & Green | Blackwall | United Kingdom | East Indiaman | For East India Company. |
| 24 December | France | | Toulon | Furet | Abeille-class brig | For French Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Aberdeen | Aberdeen | West Indiaman | For Mr. Gibbon. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | William Watson | East Stockwith | Aguilar | West Indiaman | For J. Braddick & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | South Shields | Alexander | Merchantman | For F. Hurry & Co. |
| Unknown date | Lower Canada | Henry Baldwin | Quebec City | Alexander | Merchantman | For John Lock. |
| Unknown date | India | J. Gilmore & Co. | Calcutta | Althea | Merchantman | For J. Gilmore & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Mistley | Amity | Merchantman | For Warran & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Fowey | Ann | Brig | For Ball & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Barnard | Deptford | Baring | East Indiaman | For East India Company. |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Greece | | Rhodes | Berk | Third rate | For Ottoman Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Poole | Betsey | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Portuguese India | Bomanjee | Damão | Bombay | Brig | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Denmark-Norway | Frantz Hohlenberg | Nyholm | Brevdrageren | Brevdrageren-class brig | For Dano-Norwegian Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Thomas Hearns | North Shields | British Hero | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | Cato | Schooner | For Mr. Lambden. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | William Rowe | Newcastle upon Tyne | City of London | West Indiaman | For Fenn & Co. |
| Unknown date | New South Wales | Thomas Moore | King's Dockyard, Sydney | Cumberland | Schooner | For Colonial Government of New South Wales. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Darlington | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Doris | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | India | Hudson & Bacon | Calcutta | Duchess of York | Schooner | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Bridlington | Elizabeth | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | James M. Hillhouse | Bristol | Fame | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John Perry | Blackwall | Fame | East Indiaman | For East India Company. |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | | Constantinople | Fethiye | First rate | For Ottoman Navy. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Baltimore, Maryland | Flying Fish | Schooner | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Spain | Reales Astilleros de Esteiro | El Ferrol | Fuerte | Sixth rate | For Spanish Navy. |
| Unknown date | France | | | General Augereau | Ketch | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Burma | | Rangoon | General Baird | Merchantman | For Fairlie, Gilmore & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | George | Smack | For George Browne. |
| Unknown date | Ligurian Republic | | | Giano | Brig | For Ligurian Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Temple shipbuilders | South Shields | Hercules | Merchantman | For Temple & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | South Shields | Hercules | collier | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Hope | Merchantman | For Francis Vasic. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Thomas King | Dover | Hunter | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United States | Christopher Turne | Salem, Massachusetts | Jefferson | Yacht | For George Crowninshield Jr., John Crowninsheild Veily and Calem Johnson. |
| Unknown date | Batavian Republic | Pieter Glavimans | Rotterdam | Kenau Hasselaar | Fifth rate | For Batavian Navy. |
| Unknown date | Bermuda | | Bermuda | Lady Nelson | Merchantman | For J. Atkins. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | Lavinia | Cutter | For J. Murphy. |
| Unknown date | Ligurian Republic | | | Liguria | Man-of-war | For Ligurian Navy. |
| Unknown date | Bermuda | | Bermuda | Little Catherine | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Sunderland, County Durham | Lord Eldon | Merchantman | For Mr. Kave. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | Lord Kinnaird | Smack | For Dundee Shipping Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Chapman & Campion | Whitby | Majestic | Merchantman | For E. Champion. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Whitby | Majestic | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Margaret | Merchantman | For E. Gray. |
| Unknown date | India | | Chittagong | Mersey | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | T. Nicholson & Col | Sunderland | Nautilus | Brig | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | Price | Baltimore, Maryland | Nonpareil | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Baltimore, Maryland | Numa | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Batavian Republic | Pieter Glavimans | | Pallas | Fifth rate | For Batavian Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John Brockbank | Lancaster | Paragon | Merchantman | For Mr. Ridley. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Rotherhithe | Perseverance | Whaler | For Mr. Mellish. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Dartmouth | Policy | Whaler | For Hurry & Co. |
| Unknown date | Batavian Republic | | Amsterdam | Proserpine | Frigate | For Dutch Navy. |
| Unknown date | India | | Calcutta | Queen Charlotte | Merchantman | For Colvin, Bazett & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Emsworth | Queen Charlotte | Packet ship | For Post Office Packet Service. |
| Unknown date | United States | Samuel Bowers | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Rebecca Sims | Merchantman | For Joseph Sims. |
| Unknown date | Denmark-Norway | | Hardanger | Restauration | Sloop | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | India | | Calcutta | Stirling Castle | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Talbot County, Maryland | Superior | Merchantman | For Charles Boislandry & Felix Imbert. |
| Unknown date | India | | Bombay | Supply | Waterboat | For East India Company. |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | | | Süreyya | Fifth rate | For Ottoman Navy. |
| Unknown date | India | | Bombay | Ternate | Brig | For East India Company. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | Thames | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Theseus | Merchantman | For ohn & Philip Laing. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Lancaster | Thetis | West Indiaman | For Mr. Houseman. |
| Unknown date | Jamaica | | Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica | Trelawney Planter | West Indiaman | For Mr. Sheddon. |
| Unknown date | | | New Brunswick | Trio | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | India | | Calcutta | Union | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | France | | Bordeaux | Vaillant | Privateer | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Simon Temple | South Shields | Warrior | Merchantman | For S. Temple. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Cowes | Wolf | Cutter | For Board of Customs. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | South Shields | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | New England | Name unknown | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Spain | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |